Cloth-reel.



M. W. JOYCE` CLOTH REEL.

APPLICATION man APR.11,19|8.

Patented July 16, 1918.

nnrrnn srafrns rATnN'r ormcn MARTIN W. JOYCE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOHN H. WIEMERS, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OlE NEW YORK.

CLOTH-REEL.

Specication of Letters Patent. Patented July 16, 1918.

Application filed April 17, 1918. Serial No. 229,047.

To all whom 'it may concer/n Be it known that I, MARTIN W. JOYCE, a citizen of the United States, residingy at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful.Improvement in Cloth-Reels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. Y

The object of' this invention is to provide in an economical way, a simple and durable reel on. which to wind cloth, veiling and other textile materials. f

` Such reels have been made wholly of wood, and also of a wooden frame covered with paper, vpasteboard and -other material, and they have been made. wholly or partly ofpother subst-itutes for wood. The present invention relates to that type of reel where a wooden frame is used, covered with pasteboard, boxboard or equivalent relatively stiff, lightweight and vdurable material.

So far as I know the prior art, the prescnt invention differs from it in the use of a single 'longitudinal strip of wood or other penetrable material, arranged centrally in connection with two transverse end strips of similar material, the central strip and the end strips being unconnected preferably ex cepting through the application of the cover, and the cover being creased so as to be capable of being folded over the end strips and longitudinal strip, and all united by staples or other fastenings, such as tacks, nails, wires or the like.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective View ofthe yassembled parts without the central and end nishing strips.v Fig. 2 is a plan view of the finished reel. Fig. 3 is a transverse section, on a larger scale, taken in the plane of line III-III of Fig. 2 Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of the cover, designed to show the creasing.

The frame comprises a longitudinal strip 1 of wood, or equivalent material penetrable by driven fastenings, such as staples, nails,

f tacks, wires and the like, and two end strips 2 of similar material arranged transversely at the ends 0f the longitudinal strip. It is not necessary to join or connect the end strips 2 with the longitudinal strip 1.

The frame thusk made is covered with a cover 3 made of pasteboard, boxboard or equivalent flexible materialV which vmay be and preferably is creased longitudinally as at 4, Figs. 3 ande, so as to be capable of being bent symmetrically about the ends of the end strips 2, with the meeting ends 5 meeting midway over the longitudinal frame strip 1. While the cover material is suliiciently fiexibleto admit of its being creased and then bent over the frame along the lines of the creases as described, it also has sufficientV stiffness of body to form the definite and permanent longitudinal edges of the reel, without danger of collapsing nuclei'. the load placed upon the reel, and without the necessity of using auxiliary longitudinal edge-supports for the cover between the end strips such as have been 'employed in prior constructions of built-np vor composite reels. The operation of creasing not only defines the folds but also fixes the lines of the lon. gitudinal edges of' the finished reel. Further, the stiffness of the cover material is such as to render the cover self-sustaining when applied to the frame.

`When the longitudinal mid-strip, the end strips 2 and the cover 3 are assembled or arranged. asshown in Fig. ,1, the parts are united by means of staples G or other suitable, Vpreferably driven fastenings, which -connect the meeting ends of the cover and bind them securely to the longitudinal strip, the fastenings preferably extending entirely through the structure and their ends turned into the cover material at the back, as shown in Fig. 3. Fastenings 7 are driven similarly through the cover into the endl strips to unite these parts. In order to conceal the fastenings 'and aord a symmetrical finish to the reel, I may cover them and the meeting ends 5 ofthe cover by means of a strip 8 with a similar strip 9 on the back, and the ends of the reel may be similarly covered with strips 10, the strips 8, 9 and 10 being of paper, textile material, or other suitable material or fabric.

' As alreadyy indicated, the frame composed of the single longitudinal mid-strip 1 and the end strips 2 maybe arranged without previously connecting or joining them; the cover 3 may have the longitudinal creases 4 at opposite equidistant places, so as to be foldable, without breaking and in a symmetrical manner, over the ends of the end strips, to form the longitudinal edges and body portions of the reel, and then these CIJ parts may be permanently assembled by means of a stapling or equivalent fastenerapplying machine which applies the staples 6 and 7 or other driven fastenings, aspreviously stated.

By the construction described, very dural Mastrella', liebt' and compact reels may be' Y and a' longitudinally folded self-sustaining 45 produced at a relatively small 'cost'.k The cover may be creased longitudinally in an ordinary creasing machine, and then the coverand theivooden frame members united by a stapling, nailing or other fastener-drivingfmachine, and Without the use. of glue or paste.

The splitting ofthe cover. indicated at the ends of Fig. 3, may or may not occur in bendingv the. cover over the frame, and depends more, orless upon the la-minal char acter of the material of the cover-,and the creasing.

Y vSo far as I am aware, it is new toconstruct a reel of a. skeleton frame'v covered With a cover of iibrous material creased-or grooved longitudinally alongl the folds, and the cover secured .to the frame by driven fastenings. In prior'4 constructions using fibrous covers folded over a Yframe, su-ch covers have beensimply bent over the frame and heldin place thereon by glue or simi lar adhesive. Y

Variations inthe details of construction and arrangement of. parts are contemplated as Within the princi-pley ofthe vinvention as hereinafter claimed' I What I clair-n is :7

l, A cloth reel, having a. Wooden. frame, and an inclosingy self-sustaining cover, said said cover folded over the frame andv s'e- 40 cured to the mid-strip and end strips and its longitudinal folds forming the longitudinal edges ofthe reel.

cloth reel, having a wooden frame,

inclosing cover, said frame comprising asingle longitudinal strip arranged centrally of the reel, and endet-ripsA arranged transversely to the longitudinal strip,q the cover being folded over the longitudinal and end 50 strips with itsV meeting ends,` abutting-V over 'the longitudinal strip, vand driven fastenings securing the cover to. the longitudinal strip and theend strips, said cover-alone fori-ning the longitudinal edges of the reel. 1

3. A clot-h reel, having a frame, and an inclosing selffsustaining cover, the frame coinprising a single longitudinal mid-strip and transversely arranged. end-strips, said cover folded over the stripsai-idfits meetingends 60 Yabutting over the mid-strip, driven fasten ingsapplied to the cover and mid-.strip and end strips and penetrating the severalithicknesses andthereby permanently uniti-ng the cover and frame, and finish cov-ers applied 6.5

tothe frame-inclosing cover to conceal the fastenings. y

In testimonyv whereof I have hereunto set my hand .this fifteenth day of`Ap1-;ilA D.

MARTIN W. J (DYCIE. Witnesses: o Y

Isinon Winn, J oHN J. HAzzAa-o.

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